One hundred years since women won the right to vote. One hundred days until the election. One hundred women with one hundred stories.
The author of Nancy Drew books, Carolyn Keene, is actually a group of 29 writers who brought this wildly popular series to life beginning in 1930. Publisher Edward Stratemeyer thought a female detective would complement his already successful Hardy Boys series, launched in 1927. Not looking to write the books …
The tiny rooms look pleasant enough, with curtains in the windows, a light overhead, a coffee cake fresh out of the oven. But look closer, because things aren’t what they seem: in one room, a body’s fallen on the floor; in another, a woman lies face-down in a bathtub. The …
Let’s take a trip to Hawaii today, where this week native Hawaiians honored Queen Lili´uokalani, the first woman and the last monarch to rule the islands. The chain of islands that would become America’s 50th state was originally established as a monarchy by King Kamehameha I, who conquered the islands …
In January of 1958 a gardener and birdwatcher in Massachusetts sent Rachel Carson a letter describing the dead birds she kept finding in her back yard. She believed they were dying from chemical exposure, specifically the pesticide DDT. Prompted by the letter and her decades of work with the Fish …
Sometimes you read something that breaks your heart. Yesterday Vanity Fair magazine published an essay by Jesmyn Ward, a writer and two-time National Book Award winner (for her novels Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing), about her husband’s death earlier this year from Covid-19. Jesmyn’s husband was just 33 …
The first American woman to become a self-made millionaire started out with a simple wish: to earn enough money to give her only daughter the formal education she herself never received. What she did instead was prove the ability of women to succeed on their own terms. Madam C.J. Walker’s …
Edith Rockefeller McCormick helped establish Chicago’s Lyric Opera, lent support to Carl Jung, underwrote a young James Joyce and founded Brookfield Zoo. Only now is her unconventional and uncompromising story being told.
As the saying goes, when one door closes another one opens. For Anni Albers that open door led to her life as a textile designer. Annelise Fleischmann was born in Germany in 1899. She took painting lessons when she was young and hoped to become a painter. Discouraged by a …
Her image of a Depression era migrant mother is one of the most iconic photos in American history and arguably Dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph. What’s lesser known is the story behind the image (more on that later) and all the ways in which Lange made her mark on America. …
JoEllen Kerwin is a painter and skilled miniaturist whose work serves both artistic and historicalpurposes. Each of her structures creates a sense of place for those who visit her tiny worlds. Read more about JoEllen’s fascinating creations in the HOME issue of our magazine.